jimray : Real Cities Have Trains, Gavin Shearer, gavinshearer.com - Geek punditry / Seattle stuff / Things I'm enthused about - "I landed at the airport, fetched my bag, and, for the princely sum of $2, was able to get a safe, stable and easy ride right into the heart of downtown (near the Sears Tower) in, like, 40 minutes. (I can hear the collective disbelief in Seattle from two

deusx : Spatial Hypertext and the Practice of Information Triage - MARSHALL, SHIPMAN (ResearchIndex) - "Information triage is the process of sorting through relevant materials, and organizing them to meet the needs of the task at hand."

deusx : Making money selling music without DRM: the rise of eMusic : Page 1 - "offer songs as high quality, variable bit rate MP3 files instead. DRM is removed, consumers are happy, and the vast white fields of the iPod are ready for harvest."

deusx : The Blog | Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up | The Huffington Post - "We all have much work to do, and for the most part the media do not represent us, the small people who don't hold any special titles but who feel the weight of our government's actions on our backs each and every day."

Isofarro : Web inventor warns of 'dark' net - 'The World Wide Web Consortium, of which Sir Tim is the director, believes in an open model. This is based on the concept of network neutrality, where everyone has the same level of access to the web and that all data moving around the web is treated equa

deusx : ButtUgly: Main_blogentry_230506_1 - "According to the metadata from the MP3s, at least one file comes from a Spanish website called GrupoeMusica, an illegal source of music files if I ever saw one."

Jon Hicks : 13-Inch MacBook Benchmarks - “Normally you don’t even think about running benchmarks of professional-level creative software on a laptop against desktops, and certainly not a laptop targeted toward consumers. But in the vast majority of tests, the MacBook beat out the des

deusx : 13-Inch MacBook Benchmarks 1 - "in the vast majority of tests, the MacBook beat out the desktop system and certainly proved itself competition for all but the highest-end (G5 Quad) Mac systems on the market today."

Rod Begbie : 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta 2: Get the Beta - The first major public release of the next version of Office. Get your grubby hands on the shiny new UI for the first time, and try to imagine how you're going to explain it to your parents over the phone.#